Re: One for our asian language experts...

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > However, IIRC the pasteboard system basically just sets some atoms to
> > say what type of data you have, and converts between our internal
> > unicode representation and the (basically ascii) text format that was
> > the
> > only example of X cut and paste I could find. I don't expect it would
> > need
> > a major rewrite to extend that to whatever mechanism X has for
> > internationalised
> > text cut and paste
>
>
> I don't think a major rewrite is needed, just support for new data
> types. From what I've seen (which, when it comes to X, is as little as
> possible), UTF8_STRING looks like the easiest way:
>
> http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/UTF8_STRING/
>
> although there seems to be an older and more complex COMPOUND_TEXT that
> could be used as well.

Thank you all for valuable comments.  It seems it can be done relatively
easily.  I've just collected some documents that could be referred to for
the modification.  Let me tinker at the code for a few days if you don't
mind.

- Kazu